Re: Standardized file headers?

On 4/23/26 4:48 AM, Barton Willis wrote:

> How about a minimal filer header—something like
>
> ;;; Copyright Contributors to the Maxima project. ;;; See the file 
> COPYING for license information.
Robert objects to “Maxima project”. How are we then to refer to Maxima? 
Just “Maxima”?
> A history lesson at the top of each file isn't all that helpful to 
> developers, and the past quarter century of commit comments, including 
> authors and dates, is accessible from any git-aware editor.
I agree. But if a single person basically wrote the entire file, I have 
no objection if he puts his name at the top. They deserve the credit. I 
don’t wouldn’t want any contributor adding the their name no matter how 
big or small. (Mostly.)
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> *Cc:* Stavros Macrakis <[email protected]>; 
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> On Wed, Apr 22, 2026 at 5:18 PM Raymond Toy <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I don’t find this appropriate for new code. Neither MIT, UT, nor 
> William Schelter had anything to do with it. (Like Barton’s 
> hypergeometric.lisp, I think.) Probably just remove those lines and 
> leave the Maxima project line.
>
> Agreed that we should avoid giving credit to anyone who didn't
> actually work on the code.
>
> About crediting the Maxima project, I think we should avoid that, as
> it doesn't exist in a legal sense, so it can't be credited with
> authorship. I think it's OK to be vague about who the authors are.
> Something like "copyright 2000-2026 by the authors of this file."
> Exactly who that is can be discovered in the commit log.
>
> FWIW
>
> Robert
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